Yale Scholars to Give Terrorism Lecture at Boston Public Library

The director of Yale University’s Center for the Study of Globalization, Strobe Talbott, will join Yale professors Paul Bracken, Charles Hill and Harold Koh Thursday, January 17 at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston, at 6 p.m. to discuss their recently released book, The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11.

Edited by Talbott, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and Nayan Chanda the Globalization Center’s director of publications, the book’s essay topics range from security to medical issues.

Authors included in “The Age of Terror” are: Abbas Amanat, Yale professor of modern Middle East history; Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University, specializing in international security and business issues; Niall Ferguson, Professor of Political and Financial History at the University of Oxford; John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Charles Hill, Distinguished Fellow, Yale International Security Studies, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Diplomacy at Baylor University , Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University; Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and a former Assistant Secretary of State; and Maxine Singer, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of a new era – an age of terror – in which counter-terrorism became one of the highest priorities of national government and international institutions.

Containing terrorism in the short-term and ultimately defeating it will not be an easy task, as the essays in “The Age of Terror” make clear. As America and the international community work to recover, guidance and insight from esteemed scholars will be an invaluable resource in reshaping the world.